"Is shyness an evolutionary tactic ?"

[Jah]

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&emc=eta1


Here's a great article about introverts, which also casts some light on the social disfavor that is displayed towards those of use who prefer their own company.

"...Once they reach school age, many sitter children use such traits to great effect. Introverts, who tend to digest information thoroughly, stay on task, and work accurately, earn disproportionate numbers of National Merit Scholarship finalist positions and Phi Beta Kappa keys, according to the Center for Applications of Psychological Type, a research arm for the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator — even though their I.Q. scores are no higher than those of extroverts. Another study, by the psychologists Eric Rolfhus and Philip Ackerman, tested 141 college students’ knowledge of 20 different subjects, from art to astronomy to statistics, and found that the introverts knew more than the extroverts about 19 subjects — presumably, the researchers concluded, because the more time people spend socializing, the less time they have for learning..."

 

[EmBeeTeaEye]

The article was interesting, though nothing seemed particularly illuminating nor insightful. Nice to know some of the general population will read it and maybe think about introversion/extroversion a bit more.

One thing of note was that the famous people cited as the ideal introverted individuals were primarily INTP and INTJ (with 1 or 2 exceptions). Makes me feel a bit better about myself, but less positive about introversion in general

 

[Jah]

Of course they were ^^

I think we can guess what the writer of the article is.
Though I doubt we'll be finding it out.

 

[Roran]

Nothing new.